UPDATE: Senate majority leader Harry Reid told the Senate at 5:48 p.m. Sunday that Senate Republicans have dropped their call for Social Security benefit cuts, or “chain” CPI, as part of a deal to avert the fiscal cliff. There is still “significant distance” between the two sides, he said,…

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